Monitors another process, showing an icon in the system tray while the other process is running. This process can be an already active process (specified by PID), or can be a command to be launched by this program. Programs launched by traymon.pl do not have a console window, so it can be used to monitor them as background processes.

If you have some control over the program to be monitored, and can get it to set a named event, you can also include icon frames to animate the system tray icon while the event is set. This can be used to tell when the program is performing some special action, has received a connection from a user, etc.

You can also define a custom menu to be shown when the icon is right-clicked. The menu actions can be any valid Perl code, and a couple of convinience functions are predefined. The default menu consists of an 'Exit' option, that terminates the program being monitored (via kill 9).

Where do you get use Win32::GUI::Carp. I am running Activestate, ppm'd win32::Gui but got no Carp. I then did a search on the web for Win32::GUI::Carp and ended up with nothing, which I think is strange, becouse if it was common it should popup in published scripts.

It's something I wrote myself. I thought I had posted it, along with my Tk::Carp, but apparently I'd forgotten to. I went ahead and posted it now. You can find it at Win32::GUI::Carp. I need to get both of these on CPAN, but I never got around to it.

I can't get it to work. I downloaded Win32::GUI from PPM, downloaded and installed carp. I created an icon for my program, and created an INI with but two entries, one for the program, and one for the Icon. When I run Traymon, it starts the target program and then dies with the "Please tell Microsoft about this problem" dialog. I thought perhaps my Icon was causing the problem, so I commented out the Set_Icon call as a test. Same result. Any clues for the clueless? Thanks

Is there any way to set attributes for a menu item? For example, I was previously using PerlTray from the ActiveState Perl Dev Kit. I've been running into issues with the way their systray functionality works and am looking for an alternative.
Within their PerlTray module, you can precede a menu item's label with a 'v' to indicate it as checked or '_' to indicate it as unchecked. There are also ways to make the menu item appear grayed out so that it's disabled. I'm more interested in making a menu item checked.

Ada Lovelace for the palindrome
Albert Einstein for having smelly feet
Alfred Nobel for his contribution to battlefield science
Burkhard Heim for providing the missing link between science and mysticism
Claude Shannnon for riding a unicycle at night at MIT
Donald Knuth for being such a great organist
Edward Teller for being the template for Dr. Strangelove
Edwin Hubble for pretending to be a pipe-smoking English gentleman
Erwin Schrödinger for cruelty to cats
Hedy Lamarr for weaponizing pianos
Hugh Everett for immortality, especially for cats
Isaac Newton for his occult studies
Kikunae Ikeda for discovering the secrets of soy sauce
Larry Wall for his website
Louis Camille Maillard for discovering why steaks taste good
Marie Curie for the shiny stuff
Nikola Tesla for the cool cars
Paul Dirac for speaking one word per hour when socializing
Richard Feynman for his bongo skills
Robert Oppenheimer for his in-depth knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita
Rusi P Taleyarkhan for Cold Fusion
Sigmund Freud for his Ménage ā trois
Theodor W Adorno for his contribution to the reception of jazz
Wilhelm Röntgen for the foundations of body scanners
Yulii Borisovich Khariton for the Tsar Bomba
Other (please explain why)